History that Connects

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Supporting the innovative professional development of history educators and history education in the Western Balkans to promote peace, stability and regional cooperation.

Adapting, professionalising and empowering a regional, innovative approach to the teaching of sensitive/controversial history in the countries of the Former Yugoslavia so it supports peace, stability in the Western Balkans.

• A multi-lingual teaching resource with ready-to-use classroom material available for free (digital) and in hard form in all project languages.
• A core team of 15 multiethnic history, heritage and citizenship educators contributing to an innovative, internationally-recognised best-practice educational resource. Over 700 history educators involved in the project.
• Involvement of gender-balanced mix of educators from majority and minority in all countries involved in 14 national events.
• An outreach strategy implemented including social Network campaign, web development about the project and uploading of the educational resources allowing free access globally in 8 languages and audiovisual documentation of the project. Target groups have free access and contribute to the social network campaign.
• National Curricula recommendations, Lobby and Network meetings on a local and international level, Regional Educational recommendations for teaching sensitive history,  including Governmental, Intergovernmental and Nongovernmental representatives.

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• The multi-lingual teaching resource “Once upon a time…we lived together”  has been successfully published in eight languages and has been positively evaluated.
• The educational resource was developed by an extended group of 35 history educators from all project countries, working in schools, research institutes, museums and universities. The final editing was done by an elected team of 7 editors – one from every country.
• National events took place, involving 700 individuals.  In all events, all aspects of diversity were present, including gender, ethnicity, age and socio-economic background.
• Detailed curricula analyses and recommendations have been made in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia.
• The project contributed to a multi-perspective understanding of very sensitive history in the period 1900-1945. The key to this achievement has been the insistence on the regional collection of primary source material to be purposed in active learning and ready-to-use lesson plans.